We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E.

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From the start, our booksellers fell in love with the immense humanity and humour of Lennon’s unique, profound and ferociously funny work that transports readers to the Sicily of 412 BCE and stages an ...

There will be a Fiction 101 Reading Party for all winning entries, including honorable mentions, at Rediscovered Books on First Thursday, Feb. 6, time TBA.

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2000.

By Tina Jordan This year saw a variety of novels on the New York Times best-sellers list, including the 10 titles lurking in this very short story ... year’s notable fiction, poetry and ...

impactful ideas and can free authors to explore a multitude of themes, characters, story arcs and styles within a single collection. Collections of short fiction have allowed writers like Edgar ...

He was only 25 when he won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi for Naalukettu (1959), the story of an angry young man who wants to ...

The night after the story got published, Jamal stormed to my home at around 11 PM, drenched in the rain. That was the first and only time Jamal raised his voice against me “Residents usually get ...